Dippity Doo...???? BWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!! Oh MAN!!! Soy, apart from you, me and maybe guido, do you think anyone here even knows what that is??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!! TOO funny!!!

Anyway, NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! Wrong! WE are bigger! WE are badder and YOU stink!! Quiet or we will annex your silly country and let the French run it...HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! Pass the moose meat, please! HAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!

OK, enough of this! I simply MUST get in the shower and then get  some warm milk and a glass of Ensure......nighty night!!

Dippity Doo...???? BWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!! Oh MAN!!! Soy, apart from you, me and maybe guido, do you think anyone here even knows what that is??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!! TOO funny!!!

Anyway, NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! Wrong! WE are bigger! WE are badder and YOU stink!! Quiet or we will annex your silly country and let the French run it...HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! Pass the moose meat, please! HAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!

OK, enough of this! I simply MUST get in the shower and then get  some warm milk and a glass of Ensure......nighty night!!

Dippity Doo...???? BWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!! Oh MAN!!! Soy, apart from you, me and maybe guido, do you think anyone here even knows what that is??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!! TOO funny!!!

Anyway, NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! Wrong! WE are bigger! WE are badder and YOU stink!! Quiet or we will annex your silly country and let the French run it...HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! Pass the moose meat, please! HAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!

OK, enough of this! I simply MUST get in the shower and then get  some warm milk and a glass of Ensure......nighty night!!

LOL I agree.... here here... court ajourned...  LOL

If all ours goverment would listen to us simple minded to the point people,, Maybe .. they could come up with solutions instead !!!    

LOL  Maybe we should all send our Goverments the Link to this site!!!!!!!!!!   To get a perspective from all of  Judas Priest fans...LOL  (  I mean we are all pretty smart now arent we)  LOL,,

Although .. we all would prob Be audited for the rest of our Lives !!!!!!!!!   Bahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....

MG~

		ronhartsell wrote:
		...you are absolutely correct...ya know, it wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit to slash military spending, bring everyone home (whether in conflict or not) and infuse the savings back into us...I don't even want to get going on the pharmacuticals, you wanna talk about an industry in need of reform???...this is definately one arena that I wish we could clean up, it is abusrd and perposterous...oh, we have our faults, no doubt about it, but I don't think we come close to cornering the market on it!!!...hey, here's a novel idea...why don't we all learn from each other??...all of our respective countries do something right...gee, what's the worse that could happen??      MG_Metalgoddess wrote: Yes I hear you, on the issues..   Agriculture, for some countries.. But the countries that the USA needs to stay on a even trading keel with doesnt need those services from them...  Such as Canada, and now china....  Medial research is paid for by the hard working people, in the USA..   And unfortunatley alot of money is wasted, with meaningless gifts, and right offs for doctors, when your health insurance could be more affordable.. for the middle class.. ( I worked in the medical field for 15 years) Here in Canada they do-not allow drug compies to advertise.. It is a medical decision for you and your docotor to discuss as in many other countries.. which  is why people can get their medications cheaper, than in the US. I do believe that nations should help one-another out.. ect.... For world peace sake if anything.. Money, food. ect.. But do-not ever sacrifice so much that your ownn people suffer, do to greed, and corporate driven enterprises.. MG~      ronhartsell wrote: Well, people are gonna feel how they feel...but I do take issue that America doesn't have anything to offer anymore... ...sure we do, just not in the old coventional ways... ...how about support and the many forms it comes in   -agriculture   -military/protection (how many foreign cities flourish because of  our installations, and the numbers of ppl that are employed??)   -$$ for medical research   -space programs   -advanced education (in all sorts of areas)   -technology ...this is a random list off the top of my head, but in reality there are so many more...and this list is nothing to sneeze at, we're talking global ramifications if these services were no longer provided...how many small countries would be under attack if we weren't 'Big Brother'??...YES, I do believe our military is (and has been) a marketable commodity...it's HUGE business!! ...but I, as an American, more than anything, want peace, a sense of brother/sisterhood among us all...where issues like these never become issues...I don't know if that will ever happen...but I hope...

Alot of the Technology jobs are outsourced, to forgien countries...

Edcation.. they sent my cousin to Cuba,,, Yes  CUBA.. to finish her masteres degree and write a full article, on their education system there.. because it is so much better than the USA's... wierd huh... who would have thought

Sacrifices,, I also meant as Teaching,,, Many schools have no money to continue on going important educational programs..  I have 5 school teachers in my family from MN, to New mexico,  And they are all horror stories, on the size of how big the classrooms have gotten, and the  How many students just getted pushed through the educatinal system now.. because the school dont have the money or resourses any more to help all the great minds we could have..

		MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
		Yes I hear you, on the issues..   Agriculture, for some countries.. But the countries that the USA needs to stay on a even trading keel with doesnt need those services from them...  Such as Canada, and now china....  Medial research is paid for by the hard working people, in the USA..   And unfortunatley alot of money is wasted, with meaningless gifts, and right offs for doctors, when your health insurance could be more affordable.. for the middle class.. ( I worked in the medical field for 15 years) Here in Canada they do-not allow drug compies to advertise.. It is a medical decision for you and your docotor to discuss as in many other countries.. which  is why people can get their medications cheaper, than in the US. I do believe that nations should help one-another out.. ect.... For world peace sake if anything.. Money, food. ect.. But do-not ever sacrifice so much that your ownn people suffer, do to greed, and corporate driven enterprises.. MG~      ronhartsell wrote: Well, people are gonna feel how they feel...but I do take issue that America doesn't have anything to offer anymore... ...sure we do, just not in the old coventional ways... ...how about support and the many forms it comes in   -agriculture   -military/protection (how many foreign cities flourish because of  our installations, and the numbers of ppl that are employed??)   -$$ for medical research   -space programs   -advanced education (in all sorts of areas)   -technology ...this is a random list off the top of my head, but in reality there are so many more...and this list is nothing to sneeze at, we're talking global ramifications if these services were no longer provided...how many small countries would be under attack if we weren't 'Big Brother'??...YES, I do believe our military is (and has been) a marketable commodity...it's HUGE business!! ...but I, as an American, more than anything, want peace, a sense of brother/sisterhood among us all...where issues like these never become issues...I don't know if that will ever happen...but I hope...

Yes I hear you, on the issues..   Agriculture, for some countries.. But the countries that the USA needs to stay on a even trading keel with doesnt need those services from them...  Such as Canada, and now china.... 

Medial research is paid for by the hard working people, in the USA..   And unfortunatley alot of money is wasted, with meaningless gifts, and right offs for doctors, when your health insurance could be more affordable.. for the middle class.. ( I worked in the medical field for 15 years)

Here in Canada they do-not allow drug compies to advertise.. It is a medical decision for you and your docotor to discuss as in many other countries.. which  is why people can get their medications cheaper, than in the US.

I do believe that nations should help one-another out.. ect.... For world peace sake if anything.. Money, food. ect..

But do-not ever sacrifice so much that your ownn people suffer, do to greed, and corporate driven enterprises..

MG~

		ronhartsell wrote:
		Well, people are gonna feel how they feel...but I do take issue that America doesn't have anything to offer anymore... ...sure we do, just not in the old coventional ways... ...how about support and the many forms it comes in   -agriculture   -military/protection (how many foreign cities flourish because of  our installations, and the numbers of ppl that are employed??)   -$$ for medical research   -space programs   -advanced education (in all sorts of areas)   -technology ...this is a random list off the top of my head, but in reality there are so many more...and this list is nothing to sneeze at, we're talking global ramifications if these services were no longer provided...how many small countries would be under attack if we weren't 'Big Brother'??...YES, I do believe our military is (and has been) a marketable commodity...it's HUGE business!! ...but I, as an American, more than anything, want peace, a sense of brother/sisterhood among us all...where issues like these never become issues...I don't know if that will ever happen...but I hope...

Yes I hear you, on the issues..   Agriculture, for some countries.. But the countries that the USA needs to stay on a even trading keel with doesnt need those services from them...  Such as Canada, and now china.... 

Medial research is paid for by the hard working people, in the USA..   And unfortunatley alot of money is wasted, with meaningless gifts, and right offs for doctors, when your health insurance could be more affordable.. for the middle class.. ( I worked in the medical field for 15 years)

Here in Canada they do-not allow drug compies to advertise.. It is a medical decision for you and your docotor to discuss as in many other countries.. which  is why people can get their medications cheaper, than in the US.

I do believe that nations should help one-another out.. ect.... For world peace sake if anything.. Money, food. ect..

But do-not ever sacrifice so much that your ownn people suffer, do to greed, and corporate driven enterprises..

MG~

		ronhartsell wrote:
		Well, people are gonna feel how they feel...but I do take issue that America doesn't have anything to offer anymore... ...sure we do, just not in the old coventional ways... ...how about support and the many forms it comes in   -agriculture   -military/protection (how many foreign cities flourish because of  our installations, and the numbers of ppl that are employed??)   -$$ for medical research   -space programs   -advanced education (in all sorts of areas)   -technology ...this is a random list off the top of my head, but in reality there are so many more...and this list is nothing to sneeze at, we're talking global ramifications if these services were no longer provided...how many small countries would be under attack if we weren't 'Big Brother'??...YES, I do believe our military is (and has been) a marketable commodity...it's HUGE business!! ...but I, as an American, more than anything, want peace, a sense of brother/sisterhood among us all...where issues like these never become issues...I don't know if that will ever happen...but I hope...

OK. I am going to take a chance and assume that I have enough "friends" here to say somethings without being cyber-disemboweled...

I am SO sick of all the "America-Haters" talking trash about how the big, bad United States is SO mean and forces all these poor, unsuspecting countries to trade with us and genuflect and all this other b.s! WHATEVER!! Let's get something straight right here and now; we don't NEED anyone else!! NO ONE! We can survive quite nicely without the trade of ANY other country. We are kind enough to ship good and services and AID to others and accept some of the same in return. This imaginary (yes I said imaginary) belief that we would crumble without the "rest of the world" or that we somehow "man handle" these poor little countires into accepting our "inferior" products is just plain BULLSH%$ !!!!!!!!

America helps FAR more than she hurts and that is a fact. We would have NO problem slamming our doors to the rest of the world and moving along just fine but for the fact that the REST of the WORLD needs US!!!!!!! That's right! I said it!!  We are the RICHEST, most POWERFUL nation on earth and that just galls some people. Well, too fu%&@$% bad!!!!!!!!  I have yet to see one of these poor, oppressed and disadvantaged countries refuse an American hand out! And they won't. because they NEED us........ Just like they NEED our trade. The American worker puts out a quality product and we can compete with ANYONE, ANYWHERE!    So there.